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Phillip Coorey

Phillip Coorey is the Australian Financial Review's Chief Political Correspondent, based in Canberra. Previously he was the Chief Political Correspondent for The Sydney Morning Herald and the Political Editor for Adelaide's The Advertiser. He has been in the Canberrra Press Gallery since 1998, except for 2003 and 2004 when he was the New York correspondent for News Ltd.

Phillip Coorey
THE federal government is considering revisiting the mining tax legislation to close the loophole that allows the states to gouge the tax's revenue by raising royalties - a move which would risk...

Phillip Coorey
The federal independent MP Rob Oakeshott has declared the mining tax "unsustainable" and said unless the federal and state governments sort out the dispute over royalties, the tax must be brought...

Phillip Coorey
THE federal government is prepared to jettison its promise to return the budget to surplus this financial year rather than make further harsh cuts should economic conditions continue to deteriorate,...

Phillip Coorey
THE federal opposition has rounded on the cuts contained in yesterday's midyear budget review but stopped short of vowing to block them in Parliament, saying it would reserve its decision.

Phillip Coorey
Household power bills would be reduced by as much as $250 a year and the NSW government could save more than $1b in infrastructure spending under a raft of changes proposed to the electricity market.

Phillip Coorey, Stephanie Gardiner
ALAN JONES has been forced to say sorry for the second time this week after a tribunal ruled yesterday that he must apologise on air for calling Lebanese Muslims ''vermin'' before the Cronulla riots...

Phillip Coorey, Clancy Yeates, Gareth Hutchens
THE federal government has expressed full confidence in the Reserve Bank governor, Glenn Stevens, as calls grow for a judicial inquiry into allegations that subsidiary companies of the bank bribed...

Phillip Coorey, Matt O'Sullivan
QANTAS management is warning the airline could ''go under'' if the state-owned Etihad is allowed to buy enough of a share of Virgin Australia to allow it to start undercutting Qantas on its...

Phillip Coorey
THE Opposition Leader, Tony Abbott, has promised that within a decade 40 per cent of year 12 students will speak a second language in a reply speech that condemned the federal budget this week as a...

Phillip Coorey
THE first payments from the Gillard government's cash splash budget will be handed to families with schoolchildren next month after the opposition failed to block the legislation in the lower house...

Phillip Coorey

Phillip Coorey
THE Gillard government has sought to reconnect with voters angry about the carbon tax and the cost of living with a budget that axes planned tax cuts for big business and instead hands out another $5...

Phillip Coorey

Phillip Coorey
At its core, this budget aims to build bridges between the government and the Labor base. Julia Gillard, so often accused of having a tin ear, has started to heed the message in recent weeks.